In this Ebola war, after the risk-taking docs have diagnosed and prescribed and moved on to the next, it is the nurses who must remain, carefully and closely attending the patient, hour after hour, until there is recovery, or death…there is the possibility, slim though it may be, that the Ebola virus can hit them, too.

“Travelers along the Mediterranean-to-Jerusalem corridor could stop, drop a quarter in a telescope and watch the Arabs fighting each other. That show would go on forever, because that’s what Arabs do: fight each other. Back in Baja’s garden of Eban, it would be almost Biblical.”